The Secure File Downloads feature is the ability for a sender to send a link or document via SMS or Chat. The link specified is not accessible to anybody other than the intended recipient or recipients.

This feature allows users to send files of up to 50MB in size securely, with the attachments available to users for up to 6 months. Attachments can be sent to single recipients or to a group of recipients, with the added benefit that Messenger caters for multiple formats of these attachments.

Just getting started with Bulletin? Then you’ll love this: Thursday at 11am PST, we’re offering a free webinar going over the basics of our service. We’ll be covering a lot, but once you’re done with this webinar, you’ll be able to easily create your own text messaging campaigns and much more.

Meet the king of productivity apps. Evernote is the perfect tool for managing to-do lists and keeping research, notes, reminders, photos, and more in one easy to use, easy to navigate app. Evernote makes it effortless to remember [...]

Recently, a blog article titled “The Challenges and Future of SMS Technology” was posted. This article argued that “even 21 years after its invention, sending an SMS is hard.” The challenges discussed throughout the article focus on business challenges in regards to text messaging, spam, and more.

But is this true? Is sending a text message hard, even for businesses? Not anymore.

In a recent article for Wired, John Lauer, CEO of ZipWhip, gives us his take on SMS today:

“The text message is and will remain the most ubiquitous medium for messaging. There [...]

2013 was the year of innovative mobile technology. Twenty years ago, we used our mobile devices primarily for calling and, really, not much else. Today, our mobile devices help run our entire lives and without them we would be lost. We book appointments through our devices, navigate directions to our favorite hotspots, calculate tips at restaurants, and take shameless “selfies” in public to send to our friends. Some of us are even get caught carrying on conversations with our mobile device, through our favorite travel companion, Siri. There’s no arguing that mobile is a huge part of our lives, and it’s only getting bigger.

During the month of November, we hosted a developer contest that focused on innovation, efficiency, and Bulletin API integration. We received some great entries from developers, all inspired by Bulletin software. However, one app impressed us the most, and that was Duane Smith’s Smiley Messenger.

Smiley Messenger(available on the Apple App Store) is an iPhone application that connects users with a number of [...]

For a long time you’ve been asking for custom versions of our Messenger platform – either for a complete white-label used by a reseller or a co-branded edition for company internal usage. In order to make this possible we have taken a long term view on the structure of the product so that ultimately just about every part of the user experience colouring, wording, correspondence, emails etc can be decided on-the-fly.

Most competitors will tell you they have “White-Labelling” and please contact sales. Soon afterwards you get roped into an expensive and time consuming customisation process. You’ll pay too. Our White-Labelling can be instantly provisioned and customised by you in real time. You [...]

Much has been made recently about how the US Presidential Campaigns have been allowed to utilise SMS for fundraising and this has raised awareness of the avenue but it is not just for Donkeys and Elephants.

SMS Fund for fundraising has been used by Charities for many years as a way to generate donations especially from the younger markets, some campaigns with more success than others. Is Obama Inc. a charity or does Romney really need your $5 when Corporate America is bank rolling their luncheons? Probably not, but [...]